This volume reflects a multidisciplinary approach, with the accent on the interplay between music performance and music theory. Thomas Christensen, in his contr

At the height of the Enlightenment, four conservatories in Naples stood at the center of European composition. Maestros taught their students to compose with un

This book is an edition, with commentary, of Handel's exercises for continuo playing, which he wrote for the daughters of George II. The exercises, which until

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